3. Rock the Easter eggs.

There are so many incredible ways to decorate eggs now…. using chalk, glow in the dark paint, glitter and more. This is one of my favorite – textured sensory eggs from Twodaloo.

4. Create Lead-up

Start festive Easter activities several days in advance. Read easter-themed and rabbit-themed books, go searching for rabbits outside and do easter bunny face paint. The Simple East blog has a great list of 28 Children’s Books for Easter and Spring.

5. Have a candiless Easter egg or scavenger hunt.

You can even have an egg relay with an egg balanced on a spoon, or a one-legged rabbit race complete with rabbit costumes or masks! I like the idea of a scavenger hunt, relay or race because kids aren’t automatically expecting candy so they might not feel let down. Have them search for rabbit toys, filled eggs, real decorated eggs, jewels, stickers, books, rabbit masks, stencils, rabbit pencils, rabbit erasers and more. Lovely Like you has a great photo gallery of her egg race.